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which are always at hand, and pound np sufficient quantity and put 

 them in a strong clotli to strain out a quart of clear juice ; roll the 

 horse fairlj- on his back and pour the juice down him and hold him 

 on his back from three to five minutes, release liim and in ten 

 minutes he will commence to eat. E\-ery one versed in the habits of 

 bots knows they hook in the upper part of the stomach, hence the 

 necessity of placing the horse on his back. This remedy has never 

 been known to fail in the last stages of the most severe cases. 



Mr. David Kincli, Altoona, Blair county, Penn. — For the benefit 

 of James Little and otlier ip.quirers for '" bots " in horses, I will state 

 the cure which obtains most in this vicinity is the following, viz. : 

 Bleed the animal in the neck (open the jugular vein), take half a 

 gallon of blood, drench it Math the blood, in a half hour follow with 

 one pint of sweet oil. With me it is considered a " dead shot " for 

 bots in horses. Now for the philosophy of the cure as I understand 

 it. The stomach having become morbid and particularly sour, bj' a 

 change of feed, for instance, from cut feed to whole corn, with a full 

 drink of water before feeding, which renders the contents of the 

 stomach distasteful to the bot, it quits feeding on the contents, seizes 

 the stomach to get something sweet and salt, which is blood. Put 

 that into the stomach in quantity sufficient to correct the morbidness, 

 and they will let go of the stomach, suck themselves fall almost to 

 bursting, at which time put in the sweet oil, which penetrates them 

 from the surface and makes a complete " spread eagle " of them. 



Mr. W. II. Hatch, Jr., Cornish, X. Y., Avrites tliat a friend of his 

 "has seen two horses relieved of bots by givin^^ to each a pint of 

 indigo dye as a dose," and II. M., of Canyon City, C, T., says : " Tell 

 that Sing Sing man that one and a half or two ounces of laudanum 

 saved a horse for me that was badly off for bots. . I got the receipt 

 from an Illinois teamster." 



Mr. A. B. Crandell. — Youatt, in his book about horses, gives 

 facts concerning the origin and ]ia])its of the bot, which agree, for 

 the most part, with the statements made at a previous meeting, 

 Youatt also says some things which may be surprising to certain of 

 our correspondents. For example, he announces, in effect, that the 

 bots cannot, while they inhabit the stomach of the horse, give the 

 animal any pain, for they are fastened on the cuticular or insensible 

 coat. The}' cannot stimulate the stomach and increase its digestive 

 power, for they are not on the digestive portion of the stomach. 

 They cannot, by their roughness, assist the trituration of rubbing 



